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Claudia Westermann
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Architect/artist, PhD. Founder of LITRA. Co-editor of Technoetic Arts. Associate Professor for Creative Practice, Curtin University. PhilPerson. Vice President American Society for Cybernetics. #NewMacy
Experience a small courtyard inhabited by four families in Haiyan village, Kunming, China and the objects and materials that make a village household’s everyday tangible in its aesthetic dimension. @systemic-design.bsky.social
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#publicart #revitalization #design
June 7, 2025 at 11:38 AM
I am happy to announce that the open access proceedings volume with selected contributions to the 2024 Architecture Across Boundaries conference has been published.

Links to each chapter are provided on the book's Contents page: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

#systemicdesign #architecture
May 15, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Limited print edition offer extended to April 23! The ASC60 special issue includes a selected contributions to the 60th Anniversary Meeting of the @asc-cybernetics.bsky.social American Society for Cybernetics. Head to the journal's website constructivist.info/20/2 at the latest on April 23.
April 23, 2025 at 1:11 PM
My Earth Day text. Written in 2021 but more valid today. The manuscript is available for download here: philpapers.org/archive/WESO...
April 22, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Circular Currents: Feedback, Intelligence, Emergent Systems

Saturday, April 26, 10 AM EDT + Sunday, April 27, 10 AM EDT
(ca. 90 minutes per session)

FREE REGISTRATION
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#art #artscience #cybernetics
April 22, 2025 at 2:13 AM
8 AM, Easter Sunday. I was not on an Egg Hunt today, but it seems I found an egg anyway. Someone placed one of my (early) writings within distinguished company.

Their text is here: doi.org/10.1080/0803...
April 20, 2025 at 12:49 AM
The editorial to the special issue of Constructivist Foundations with selected papers from the 60th Anniversary Meeting of the American Society for Cybernetics provides an overview of its four thematic conversations. Open access. constructivist.info/20/2/067 #cybernetics #recursivity
April 18, 2025 at 3:52 PM
The ASC60 issue of Constructivist Foundations features four extended contributions to the 60th Anniversary Meeting of the American Society for Cybernetics – each accompanied by five to seven commentaries and an authors' response.
constructivist.info/20/2 #Cybernetics @asc-cybernetics.bsky.social
April 15, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Empathy, Intersubjectivity, and More-than-Human Design
A conversation on the role of human subjectivity in understanding more-than-human lifeworlds.

Sunday, Apr 13, 9:00 PDT, 12:00 EDT

FREE REGISTRATION
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Full text: shorturl.at/aECLb
#cybernetics #ecology
April 9, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Last day to log your Intent-to-submit. Final submissions due by April 30. Need help? Reach out to rsdeditors@rsdsymposium.org. Take 5 minutes now to do this. bit.ly/RSD14-CfP. #systemicdesign #RSD14 | sketchnote Patsy Kambitsch, Playthink
March 14, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Andrew Pickering will discuss his new book with Paul Pangaro in the ASC's speakers series: Sunday, March 16, 2025 - 9:00 AM PDT | 12:00 PM EDT | 5:00 PM CEST - FREE Registration us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... @asc-cybernetics.bsky.social
March 1, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Join us for Synthetic Sentience in Perth, Australia, 16-18 July 2025 – the 5th Politics of the Machines conference. The abstracts for all seven tracks are due on March 15.
www.pomconference.org/pom-perth-20...

#artscience #art #systemicdesign #indigenouslogics #quantumphysics #cybernetics
February 22, 2025 at 1:43 AM
I am happy to report that the special Sea Issue of Technoetic Arts is with the printers! Thanks to Bill Psarras for guest editing this issue.

See a preview with all abstracts on TA's pubpub page:
ta.pubpub.org/pub/22-2-sea

#art #water #sea #ecology #technoeticarts #mediaart
January 14, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Cybernetics and Political Organisation

Speaker: Rodrigo Nunes Host: Howard Silverman
This talk will pick up on and develop some of the cybernetic themes in Nunes' book "Neither Vertical Nor Horizontal: A Theory of Political Organisation" (Verso, 2021).

Free: www.eventbrite.com/e/cybernetic...
January 12, 2025 at 11:05 PM
The next AHRA conference will take place 22-24 November 2025 at the University of Liverpool.

The call for sessions is now open - submit your proposals until 17 February 2025, 5 pm (GMT)!! www.virtual-lsa.uk/ahra2025/

#architecture #humanities #ahra #liverpool
December 19, 2024 at 5:19 PM
RSD13 - the #Systemic #Design #Conference is coming up. Choose how much you want to pay for an RSDX online ticket. Click "Get tickets" here https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/rsd13-oslo-online-systemic-design-symposium-tickets-909271143467 and scroll down for the PWYC option (until Oct. 22).
September 22, 2024 at 2:05 PM
We will present reflections on Symphony of the Everyday – Sunset Sonata, our most recent public artwork, in an experiential session of RSDX on October 13 and in a paper session on October 16: https://rsdsymposium.org/symphony-of-the-everyday/

#art #publicart #systemicdesign
Photo by Lei Feng.
September 22, 2024 at 12:45 PM
The Book of Abstracts of the 60th Anniversary Meeting of the American Society for Cybernetics (ASC) can be downloaded for free in PDF format: https://events.asc-cybernetics.org/2024/program/

#cybernetics
August 3, 2024 at 8:10 PM
Issue 22.1 of Technoetic Arts is out!!

Head over to Intellectdiscover https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/ta/

My editorial can be downloaded for free.

#art #technoetic #cybernetics #artbasedresearch #practicebased #design #ecology
June 8, 2024 at 6:33 PM
We are happy to announce that the program for the 60th anniversary meeting of the American Society for Cybernetics is online. Five days with eighty cybernetic conversations.
https://events.asc-cybernetics.org/2024/program/

#philsci #philtech
#cybernetics #conference #play #languaging #technicity
May 31, 2024 at 2:37 PM
Symphony of the Everyday – Sunset Sonata created for the 2024 Dianchi Art Season is still on exhibit until the end of May 2024 in Haiyan, Kunming, China.

More images and audio:
https://youtu.be/DKSKJJz4r_g

#publicart #art #interactiveart #interaction #China #soundscape
May 14, 2024 at 8:00 AM
The submissions platform for the 60th anniversary meeting of the American Society for Cybernetics is open. Deadline 3 March 2024.
https://events.asc-cybernetics.org/2024/submissions-and-peer-review/?task=register

#cybernetics #systems #washingtondc #play #languaging
February 13, 2024 at 3:32 PM
50 days of free access to our article - until March 26, 2024. "Virtual reality and electroencephalography in architectural design: A systematic review of empirical studies." https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1iYEh8MyS9AJi5

#neuroarchitecture #electroencephalography #virtualreality #architecture
February 6, 2024 at 4:46 PM
In homage to past experiments in conversational framings of ASC meetings, the ASC’s 60th anniversary meeting will engage in situational enactments of cybernetics at a variety of locations in Washington, DC, ranging from an arts center to the zoo.
#cybernetics

Call
https://asc-cybernetics.org/2024
February 5, 2024 at 6:40 PM
Thanks to the publisher Intellect, ‘On delight: Thoughts for Tomorrow’, an article I wrote some years ago for Technoetic Arts, is temporarily available for free.
It resonates with the spirit of a beginning year. Wishing you a delightful 2024. #cybernetics #art
https://doi.org/10.1386/tear.16.1.43_1
January 4, 2024 at 1:47 AM